Daniel Lyons Quotes
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
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Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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You've got a couple of same-sex guys kissing, do you 'like' that? Well, that makes me want to throw up. To me, I would punch 'vomit' not 'like', but they don't give you that option on Facebook.
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The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
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Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
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I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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Loose ideas on the subject of business will not answer. It must be reduced to something of a science. It has its principles, upon a knowledge and an application of which, success in it mainly depends.
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I have soundtracks for a lot of stuff.
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My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on with it.
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I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.
